Misfortune Followed Us Home

Misfortune Followed Us Home ch.13

 

Kagome pinched the bridge of her nose as she shook her head.  She often wondered how she put up with Inuyasha all these years.  Putting up with Sesshoumaru however, was going to be even more difficult.  If she had never broken the jewel she wouldn’t be in this mess right now.  But, she had and it was her duty to see it put back together. She sighed as she dropped her hand to her side.  She jumped as her hand brushed past her waist, touching the bare flesh.  Oh sweet Kami!  She had forgotten that she was getting dressed when he showed up.  “I had no top on the whole time,” she yelled in her mind.  “How is he supposed to take me seriously when I’m half dressed?!”  At the thought she began to blush, a light pink brushing her cheeks and dipping down to paint her neck and chest.  Sesshoumaru had seen her half-dressed.  She wondered briefly what he thought of her before pushing the thought aside.  Sesshoumaru held no interest in her, she was ningen.  It was doubtful now that he held hatred for all humans after Rin, but still, she doubted he would get involved with one in that way.  He was busy scolding her anyway.  “Why am I even thinking about this,” she yelled out.   She needed to get dressed and return before Sesshoumaru got impatient and came back.  She grabbed a white tank top and pulled it over her shoulders.  She reached for a jacket from another shelf, another crop top, this one in a mandarin style.  It was navy with white cuffs and trimming around the collar.  She shrugged it on and buttoned it up.  She took two rolls of white cloth and bound the ends of hakamas.  She wrapped the white fabric up from her ankles to just under her calf muscles, and then pulled on a pair of white tabi socks and black ankle boots.  She went back to the entrance and grabbed her bow and quiver.  She secured them to her back and pulled on her archery gloves.  Fully dressed and as ready as she could be for combat she climbed down the ladder and back into the real world.

                                                                                                                                 

When she emerged, she found Sango and Miroku standing to one side.  They were shifting their feet and glancing everywhere except in the directions of Sesshoumaru, who stood leaning against a tree, and Inuyasha, who was still bound and angrily glaring at everyone.  As they spotted her they ran over.

“Kagome-sama,” Miroku called.  “Are you alright,” he asked in a low voice.

“I’m fine Miroku, but we need to get going.”  She looked up at the sky, judging from the sun it was around nine or ten in the morning.  They probably wasted a lot of time waiting for her to wake up.

“I agree,” Sango said, “but, what are we going to do about Inuyasha?”

“I’ll talk to him,” Kagome sighed out as she drug a hand across her face.  “Just make sure you guys and Shippo are ready to go.”

“Alright,” she responded, “’good luck.”

Kagome let out a small, slightly bitter laugh at this as she walked over to the fuming hanyou.  If looks could kill, she was sure they would be dead a hundred times over by now.  She settled for a simple greeting to start.  “Morning Inuyasha,” she greeted with a large smile on her face.  His glare intensified.  “Look, I know you’re angry but I need you to listen.  Sesshoumaru has decided to accompany us to the village we are investigating.  I know you two don’t get along, but you need to bear with it for a while.  You knew when we crossed into Sesshoumaru’s territory and you didn’t bother to tell any of us.  This is the consequence from your action.  Now I’m going to take the sutra off your mouth okay?”  He rolled his eyes at her and she assumed that meant get on with it.  She took the edge of it and ripped it off in one quick motion.

“Ow!  What the fuck Kagome!”

“Sorry Inuyasha.  It would have hurt more if I did it slowly.”

“Keh, whatever.  Just let me loose.”

“Not before you promise me that you won’t go attacking Sesshoumaru.”

“Why you protecting that bastard Kagome?  You know he’s tried to kill me.  He’s bad news Kagome, just let me go and I’ll take care of him.”

She slapped her forehead with her hand and shook her head as she sighed.  “Look Inuyasha, this is your fault, you’re just going to have to deal with it.”

“How is this my fault!?!”

She was starting to get angry.  “You crossed into his territory, without his permission and-“

“I don’t need his damn permission to go where I want!”

“And,” she continued gritting the word out between clenched teeth, “you didn’t bother to tell any of us!  How do you think I felt when he just showed up, demanding that I tell him what my purpose was for being here!  I screamed when I saw him Inuyasha, where were you? Huh? Why didn’t you come running wielding Tetsusaiga as usual?  Where did you go?  I was bathing and everyone else was asleep.  You left the camp unprotected!”

“Keh, you had the stupid barrier.”

“He went through it, just walked right in!  And I bet you were nowhere nearby to protect us.  What if it had been Naraku huh?  Then what?”

“But it wasn’t Kagome, stop making such a big deal out of it.  Just let me get rid of that bastard and we can go!”

“Ugh,” she screamed, “You just don’t get it.  I don’t care if Sesshoumaru is here.  As long as you’re respectful towards him, he could care less about you.  You don’t have to like it, but you have to deal with him until we reach this village and find out what’s going on.  After that we’re getting kicked out anyway.  Just be civil for a few days.  For our sake, please Inuyasha.”

“Keh, I don’t know what’s wrong with you, but I’m not putting up with him for one second longer that I have to, and I don’t have to now.”

“Fine then,” she said, “You leave me no choice.  I hope when you wake up you’ll be in a better mood.”

“Huh? When I wake up?  Wha- no wait Kagome!”

“Osuwari.  OSUWARI. OSUWARI!”  By the time she was done, the hanyou was thoroughly unconscious.  “Miroku,” she called, “Get Kirara, let’s load him up and get going.”

Kagome was rather ruthless when she was angry.